Marginal fabric grip



. Ded. 9, 1941. c. E. ANDERSON 51" AL 2,265,507

MARGINAL FABRIC GRIP Filed April 8, 1941 EARL E.AN DEREEIN INVE TORSBEURGE r-LELWELL.

Patented Dec. 9, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MARGINAL FABRIC GRIPN. J., a corporation Application April 8, 1941,,Serial No. 387,336

3 Claims. (Cl. 24-79) This invention relates to marginal-fabric gripsand more especially to a one-piece sheet-metal member having a dependingrigid fabric-receiving orifice with a relatively hinged wire meanshaving certain formations cooperating with a cut-metal edge of theorifice to grip the marginal portion of an inserted fabric.

The object therefore is to provide a novel and effectual means tomarginally grip fabric, such as for instance the bound margin of a bibof overalls, to dispense with the usual button upon the bib and overwhich a button loop is intended to be clipped, the marginal-fabric griptaking the place of both the button and the button loop.

Referring to the accompanying. drawing, the Figure 1 is an upright faceview of the device, the hinged wire member being in fabric-grippingposition; the Figure 2 is a side View of the device, partly incross-section, and including a gripped fabric and threaded strap;the-Figure 3 is a View similar to that shown in the Figure l, but withthe hinged member in fabric-released position; the Figure 4 is a sideview of the device, the hinged member being in fabric-released position;the Figure 5-is an upright face view of a slightly modified device, thehinged member being in fabric-gripping position; and the Figure 6 beinga side view of the modified device, partly in crosssection.

With reference more particularly to the accompanying drawing, the upperportion of the sheetmetal member I is provided with the parallelhorizontal strap loops 2, 2A and 2B separated by the horizontal bars 3and 3A and having the top bar 3B, the metal edges surrounding the loops2, 2A and 2B, and also the metal edges surrounding the upper portion ofthe sheet-metal member i, being rearwardly rolled to reinforce theentire structure. Rigidly depending from, and in a common plane with,the sheet-metal member I are the laterally spaced companion arms 4 and4A the extremities of which are forwardly rolled to provide the internalbearings 5 and 5A for a purpose to be explained. The dependingsheet-metal between the arms 4 and 4A is rearwardly off-set into aparallelly spaced plane from that of said arms to provide the rear wall6 of the orifice 1 comprising the open space between the planes of thearms 4 and 4A and said wall 6.

Spaced companion openings 8 and 8A provided by the wall 6 are eachprovided on the lower horizontal edge of such openings with the upwardlyprojecting teeth 9. Vertical embossed beads H] are provided upon thefaces of the arms 4 and 4A and the wall 5 for increased strength ofstructure.

The wire member ZDis of rectangular bent loop structure having the longbars 2| and 22 and the side bars 23, the meeting extremities of the longbar 2| may be united at 2 iA by means ofwelding or in any other desiredmanner. Intermediate its length the long bar 22' is provided withthespaced projections 24 and 24A extending out of the plane of the member20, these projections 24 and 24A being formed of course by bending thewire before the rectangular loop structure of the member is formed.Aligned portions 25- of the bar 22, one upon either side of theintermediate projections 24 and 24A, are placed for rotation within therolled bearings! and. 5A, the relative positions of the projections24'and 24A, asregards the spaced openings 8- and 8A, being such that, asthe Wire member 20 is rotated from oneposition to another, theprojections 24 and 24A are thereby swung toward, and away from, theirprojected registration with the spaced openings 8 and 8A, respectively.

In use, the improved device is suspended from an overhead strap S, suchas iscommonly pro vided by overalls for a shoulder support of the bib,the strap S being inserted from the rear of the upper portion of thedevice within the loopv 2, down over the face thereof and rearwardlywithin the loop 23, then up;over the rear and through the loop 2A behindthe already threaded strap portion, and then rearwardly throughthe loop2, which method of threading'not only givesa' strap to-strap bindinggripbut also neatly disposes of the strap end which might otherwise hangdown to. interfere with the functioning of the: marginal-fabric gripportion of the device. With the wire member 20 in the position of eitherthe Figure 3 or the Figure 4, whereby the projections 24 and 24A areswung out of the orifice 1, the marginal binding of the fabric F may bethrust up within the orifice l' in front of the rear wall 6 and in therear of the companion arms 4 and 4A, so that the fabric F covers thespaced openings 8 and 8A and the Wire member 20 may be rotated into theposition illustrated by the Figures 1 and 2 whereby the projections 24and 24A may engage the fabric F thereby wedged within the openings 8 and8A where the projections 24 and 24A seeking headroom bind the marginalfabric F against its release from within the orifice I, the teeth 9augmenting the securement of the fabric F therein. With the manualreturn of the wire member 20 to the position whereby th 24B, cutout, asat l3, and bent around the aligned projections 24 and 24A are swung outfrom within the orifice 1, the fabric F is readily released.

The Figures 5 and 6 illustrate a slight modification of the improveddevice wherein the frontage or face of the device is reversed from thatof the preferred form, the wall 5 becoming the front Wall 6A and theheadroom for the inwardly swung projection 243 being provided by theembossed section 8B having the teeth 9A struck out of the metal of thesection 8B but substantially formed in the plane of the wall (in. Inthis modified form of device the sheet-metal member IA is illustratedhaving the strap loop 20 parallel with the upper bar 30 as and for meansfor attaching the device to a looped strap SA although the modifieddevice might just as well include the strap threading means illustratedby the preferred-form. For the sake of'design only the dependingcompanion arms 43 and 4C are given a length equal to that of the frontwall 6A, the horizontally aligned grooves 53 and 5;} providing bearingseats for the aligned portions'25Aof the bar 22A carrying the projectionthe securing metal straps I2 being partially portions 25A to completethe bearings of the bearing seats of the grooves 5B and 5C.

'In use, the modified form of the device is'operated in amanne'r similarto that of the preferred form with the exception that the positions ofthe wire member 20A are somewhat reversed owing to the fact that thewall BA becomes in tively hinged sheet-metal and wire loop memiii) themodified form the front wall of the orifice IA.

We claim:

1. A marginal-fabric grip comprising a rigid 1 sheet-metal structurehaving integrally in a commonplane an upper strap-threading attachingmeans and lower depending spaced companion arms; an integral ofi-setportion with which the sheet-metal structure is provided by the metalbetween said arms, the off-set portion and said arms providingrelatively rigid spaced front and rear supports in substantiallyparallel planes; a fabric-receiving orifice provided by the spacebetween the front and rear supports; a rigid member hinged to one ofsaid supports; a projection with which the hinged member is provided andcapable of being swung within the orifice; a cut-metal formationprovided by the other support to provide headroom for said projection;an edge of said cut-metal exposed within said headroom; and meansprovided by the hinged member for the manual operation of the projectionwithin the orifice and toward and away from said headroom.

2. A marginal-fabric grip comprising relabers, the sheet-metal memberintegrally including an overhead strap attaching means; an integrallydepending fabric-receiving orifice provided by the lower portion of thesheet-metal member and defined by the space between relatively rigidfront and rear wall portions of which one wall is relatively off-setfrom metal between laterally spaced portions of the other wall in spacedparallel vertical planes; vertically extending embossed beads with whichthe faces of the sheetmetal member, including said front and rear walls,are provided for increased strength of structure; a'cut-metal edgedformation provided by one of said walls; and means rigidly carried bythe wire loop member to cooperate with the cut-metal edge of saidformation to grip a marginal portion of fabric inserted within the saidorifice.

3. A, marginal-fabric grip comprising a relatively hinged sheet-metalmember and a wire loop member, the sheet-metal member including in itsupper portion a triple horizontal bar straploop structure having anupper bar and bars separating said loops; a strap looped from the rearinto the uppermostloop, the free end of the strap then passed into thelowermost loop from the front and then looped from the rear around thebar adjacent said upper bar, the thus looped end underlying the alreadythreaded portion of the strap; the said sheet-metal member in its lowerportion having an integrally depending fabric-receiving orifice definedby the space between laterally spaced, and relatively rigid wallportions in the plane of the upper portion of the sheet-metal member,and a rearwardly off-set rear wall from the metal'between, andparallelly spaced from, said laterally spaced wall portions; the Wiremember comprising a rigid'structure having a horizontal bar hinged tothe laterally spaced wall portions of said orifice; projections formedin the hinged horizontal bar, said projections being capable ofextending within said orifice and rearwardly toward said off-set wall;spaced companion openings provided by the ofi-set wall for headroom forthe spaced projections; cut-metal edges having teeth exposed within saidopenings; and means with which the wire member is provided for themanual operation of said wire member whereby the projections may beswung against a marginal portion of fabric inserted within the orifice,said fabric thereby being wedged within said openings and held upon saidteeth.

' CARL E. ANDERSON. GEORGE H. ELWELL.

